Belonging to a series of houses with stacking shutters, the Shutter House for a Photographer is organized on a checkered...
Within the historical “Marais” district of Paris, this apartment building sits on a narrow site flanking an existing fire wall....
Responding to the scale of the neighboring buildings, the New School of Business is composed of a cluster of small...
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the heights of the neighboring buildings yet occupies only half of...
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
As a temporary structure of at most 10 years was requested, recyclable and reusable materials were used for the building....
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, invention, and promotion of paper. As a museum,...
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
This weekend house is composed of a glass box surmounted by a large woven plywood dome. Four structural plywood boards...
Inspired by the location’s unique topography, the abundance of trees and rocks on the site, and the surrounding New England...
As an initial response to the small buildings surrounding the site, which include houses as well as a kindergarten and...
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
The design of this Lutheran church strived to remain humble in response to the religious doctrine as well as the...
For this extension of the Rietberg Museum, designated as a cultural heritage, limited space was assigned in the park surrounding...
The main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
For the 924-square-meter contemporary gallery, an existing structure  was renovated. A similar transformation occurs on its south facade. This entire...
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
The main space of the Daycare Center is created with LVL wood, the same as the roof material of the...
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
For this conservation activity centre commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, a lightweight, energy autonomous paper pavilion was designed in...
After the “Hannover Expo Japan Pavilion” the design for the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” was the second collaboration with Professor...
The building‘s structure is made of one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor, allowing open spaces for...
The theme for the 2000 Hannover Expo was sustainability, so a completely recyclable pavilion was designed. The pavilion took the...
The Paper Arch is made entirely of paper tubes, spanning over the sculpture garden of the MoMA in New York,...
The three-storied glass cube is connected at three corners to a full height ivy screen, which functions as the primary...
Constructed in coordination with a local volunteer organization, the Paper Log Houses aimed to alleviate the homelessness following the earthquake...
The main design focus for this children’s art museum was to create an ideal facility made of a material familiar...
In 1995, Shigeru Ban became involved in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) efforts to provide temporary housing...
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
A narrow site is divided lengthwise into building and courtyard to create the Ivy Structure house. The construction method makes...
The fashion runway was designed using seven paper-tubes of 13 meter length and 62 centimeter diameter. The models walked weaving...
This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented...
Another development of the furniture house, the Nine-Square Grid House replaced the wood frames of the furniture units with steel....
Inherently a three-story row-house complex, the Hanegi Forest succeeded in preserving every existing tree on the site. To ensure that...
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
The Big Roof unifies several leisure programs and creates intermediate spaces between inside and outside. All rooms open up to...
The Wall-less House sits on a mountain slope with the floor sloping upward to meet the roof, naturally absorbing the...
More than just a train station, Tazawako Station also offers various public facilities. The openness and transparency of the building...
This project was started from 1996 and had continued for 8 years. Dental exhibitions took place every 2 months where...
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
Furniture House 2 is the prototype of a two-story house employing furniture units as structural system. The furniture system used...
This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in...